VIRGINIA WOOLF(1882-1941)

Note biografiche in inglese

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. She grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere: in fact her father’s friends were some of the most important 19th century writers.
Her life was marked by mental problems. Virginia had three major mental breakdowns during her lifetime, and she would die during a fourth. Her first breakdown occurred after her mother’s death, when she was only 13 years old, which Virginia later described as "the greatest disaster that could have happened".
She married Leonard Woolf, a publisher. Virginia Woolf and her husband took part in the "Bloomsbury Group”, a group of intellectuals that reacted against Victorian society and values.
A number of her writings are autobiographical. After the final attack of mental illness, Woolf loaded her pockets full of stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home on March 28, 1941.
She feared her madness was returning and that she would not be able to continue writing.